Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell's work, Outliers, was one of the books we could choose as an Upper School teacher this past summer for our discussion groups. Since I had read Gladwell's The Tipping Point as well as Blink, I had a pretty good idea of the approach he would use in this book about those rare individuals, the super successful, superior intellectual or phenome athlete. However, my suprise was in the angle he chose. Gladwell's argument bases success on factors such as family ethics, birth month and even year of birth. He compares these outliers to their fellow attorneys, hockey players, even airline pilots with startingly suprising contrasts. For a short read that makes you think more about the intangibles in life, I recommend Outliers. We have just begun Siddhartha, then off to Kafka's Metamorphosis.